Word: biologist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hundred years later, those physicists have been succeeded by others who are just as short-sighted. I recently asked a celebrated Harvard biologist what major unresolved questions remained in his field. To my amazement, he said there really were none. All the big, important questions have been answered, he said, and the job of the next generation is simply to fill in the gaps...
This cocksure biologist is wrong, of course. There are still many major unanswered questions in his field, and in all of science. But his bravado is an example of a larger problem, which I’ll call “veritas” syndrome. Although the biologist had an especially virulent form, and the physicists during the late 19th century also suffered from it, this disease is usually so common that it’s nearly imperceptible. The main symptom is the unwillingness to acknowledge and celebrate one’s own ignorance. The children who wrote questions...
Kosslyn was introduced to Epstein by the famed late Harvard professor and evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould, and Dershowitz says he met Epstein through “mutual friends...
...award—presented by the Harvard Medical School Center for Health and the Environment—was created in 2001 and previously awarded to eminent Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson and actor Harrison Ford...
Excerpted in the New Yorker three months before it was published as a book, biologist Rachel Carson's eloquent, rigorous attack on the overuse of DDT and other pesticides--she called them "elixirs of death"--had already upset the chemical industry. Velsicol, maker of two top bug killers, threatened to sue the book's publisher, Houghton Mifflin, which stood firm but asked a toxicologist to recheck Carson's facts before it shipped Silent Spring to bookstores...